The frozen cells will remain alive for decades, maybe even centuries.

冰冻的细胞将可以存活几十年，甚至一个世纪。

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Sometimes atmospheric radiocarbon levels remain constant for many decades, even centuries.

有时候大气原因会使碳素十年甚至百年保持稳定。

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Throughout its history, the Great Wall has gone through decades, even centuries, of ruin and disrepair.

纵观历史，长城已经经历了几十年，甚至几百年的毁坏和失修。

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Saudi Arabia destroyed its mausoleums and silenced its musicians decades, even centuries, ago.

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The connection with wealth is well established (see chart again) but that is different: it has been forged over decades, even centuries.

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Many ideologies took decades, even centuries, to be acknowledged as wrong.

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